Reply to post: Re: Why should the licence payer in the UK provide free content to others?

BBC said it'll pull radio streams from TuneIn to slurp more of your data but nobody noticed till Amazon put its foot in it

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Re: Why should the licence payer in the UK provide free content to others?

Too right, given they make up the vast majority of the BBC's viewership, the average age of a BBC viewer is north of 62 by their own data....

So remind me again why the young, who on the whole don't watch the BBC, are often struggling to make ends meet, should pay for TV Licences for the over 75s who have triple locked state pensions, very generous workplace pension payouts, own their homes outright, receive free public transport and variuous other freebies?

Don't say "they worked hard", ALL of us work hard (and those currently working are often working harder than ever in zero hours work) what about WW1 and WW2 veterans, very few of whom actually got a free TV licence and who actually did fight for this country? Rather than anyone currently under 90 who lived through a generally very prosperous period in history, yet when you hear many of them talk, you'd think they had been first on the beaches at Normandy or in the trenches at the Somme....

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